Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data his Department holds on the number of passengers (a) embarking and (b) disembarking UK passenger cruise ports in each of the last five years.

The Department for Transport publishes monthly UK international cruise passenger movements by direction, as part of its annual sea passenger release. This information can be found at the following link in table SPAS0107, column H - Pleasure Cruises Sea passenger statistics: data tables (SPAS) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Numbers in the table represent the number of international cruise passengers in thousands.

The number of domestic cruise passengers can be found in table SPAS0201, Sea passenger statistics: data tables (SPAS) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).